Five years ago, who would have thought this possible?
ADAM HOCHSCHILDRonald Reagan perfected the subtler version long ago by talking about “welfare mothers” – a code phrase for people of colour.
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And yet the world we live in-its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor
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The Messerschmitt 109 fighter plane for example, the Stuka dive bomber, the 88 millimeter artillery piece, which could be used both for antiaircraft purposes and also shelling on the ground.
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And tens of millions of Americans will feel a similar revulsion for the politicians and generals who were so spendthrift with others’ lives.
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You’ve got politicians in power or vying for power who are taking tactics and elements of their appeal from the playbook of fascism.
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I think [George] Orwell is right. There are certainly moments when political differences appear minor, and someone can claim to be non-political or to want to stay out of the fray, but today is not one of those moments.
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Things have gotten openly more extreme in the last few years. I was lecturing in Hungary, whose prime minister, Victor Orban, is an example of this trend.
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Leopold’s Congo is but one of those silences of history.
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It sure is a rising tide, and we have a particularly nasty exemplar of it in the U.S., in Donald Trump.
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How many really great writers are there who are totally non-political? You can hear the French Revolution in the poetry of [Percy Bysshe] Shelly and [John] Wordsworth
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Many of the principle weapons that the Nazis used during World War II had their first trial in combat in Spain
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All of us living in today’s world are facing an enormous crisis – arguably the greatest that humanity has ever faced
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One of my favourite contemporary fiction writers is a Texan, Ben Fountain. His extraordinary novel, Billy Lynn’s Long Half-Time Walk, all takes place within the half-time show at a Dallas Cowboys football game.
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Ditto for her countryman the great playwright Athol Fugard.
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I think in many ways, the Spanish Civil War was the first battle of World War II.
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Skinner goes everywhere, from border crossings to brothels to bargaining sessions with dealers in human beings
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